The issue we have right now in Sarasota-Manatee is communities trying to control growth.

All those images (from the Seneca game) came back in my mind again. We lost that game, and that really cost us, because tonight's game would have been for a tie.

In a summer league game I had to guard him. He went for 43.

I've got probably 20 to 30 pounds and six inches on him. I just tried to make him do what he didn't want to do. I bumped him a couple of times, got him out of his rhythm.

The atmosphere at Ridder was awesome. We had great crowds there. The crowds here are loud and they are into the game. Our kids loved it. The locker rooms, the ice sheet, it is cool and part of coming to the state tournament is the whole experience.

The atmosphere for the Upper State championship game was so great. I thought it was a lot better than being at Timmons. And we'll be able to put a big crowd in there. We're proud of our basketball, and we want it to get bigger and bigger. That's gonna be good for the whole county.

It was astounding. I've never seen anything like it in my 20 years of coaching. There was no question it gave us a lift. It raised the confidence level of our play, and you could see it was a huge deflating moment for Anoka. It had to have been very demoralizing.

They got it right. It was definitely a hand-pass. In that case, (replay) worked. We're happy that was the outcome.

We're going to try to make it easier on ourselves.

We finished the season exactly the way we started it. The kids really wanted this, and it showed in their play. We were focused on getting to this point.